{"id":157347,"date":"2015-06-08T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=157347"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:56:52","slug":"britain-opposes-boycott-israel-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/britain-opposes-boycott-israel-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain opposes boycott of Israel: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">A British Foreign Office official has reiterated London\u2019s commitment to opposing a boycott of Israel.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Tobias Ellwood has in a recent tweet to an Israeli official said he did not believe in the merits of introducing boycotts <\/span>\u201cwhen we are trying to get people back to the [negotiating] table,\u201d<span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0RT reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">He also r<\/span><span style=\"color: #1c2022;\">eaffirmed the UK&#8217;s commitment to Israel\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #1c2022;\">and opposition to its boycotts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The statement comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned a recent vote by the UK National Union of Students (NUS) to boycott goods from Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The NUS passed a motion to boycott Israeli goods in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/07\/414786\/UK-Israel-boycott\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British Foreign Office official has reiterated London\u2019s commitment to opposing a boycott of Israel. Tobias Ellwood has in a recent tweet to an Israeli official said he did not believe in the merits of introducing boycotts \u201cwhen we are trying to get people back to the [negotiating] table,\u201d\u00a0RT reported. He also reaffirmed the UK&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}